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“#Indonesia province declares state of emergency over forest fire risk” Central Kalimantan on Borneo island was ravaged last year by fires blamed for blanketing swathes of Southeast Asia in toxic haze An Indonesian province declared a state of emergency Wednesday as officials said they had pinpointed hundreds of spots at risk of erupting into smog-belching…
“#Indices of health under our feet” Wastewater gathered at treatment plants contains a wealth of information relevant to human and environmental health. A new technique known as wastewater-based epidemiology can extract this vital information and use it to monitor important health indices at a local or global scale. Credit: Biodesign Institute A treasure trove of…
“#Florida still deadliest state for lightning as storms roll into busiest time of year” Credit: CC0 Public Domain While Florida is referred to as the Sunshine State, it could also go by the name of electric reaper given its status as the deadliest state for lightning strikes. It’s National Lightning Safety Awareness week, and with…
“#EPA’s relaxed enforcement of pollution reporting due to COVID-19 ends in August” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Environmental Protection Agency will end a temporary policy that relaxed reporting requirements on pollutants due to the coronavirus at the end of August, amid criticism that the pandemic policy has jeopardized public health. Democratic lawmakers, several states and…
“#UN agency: Source of radioactivity in Nordics still unclear” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The U.N. nuclear agency says slightly elevated levels of radioactivity that have been detected in northern Europe pose no risk to human health or to the environment but it’s still unclear what the cause was. The Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish radiation and…
“#Russian Arctic sets ‘fantastical’ heat records: weather chief” Russia struggles with wildfires in its remote taiga every summer The Russian Arctic set record temperatures in June that sparked abnormal tundra fires, the head of Russia’s weather service said Tuesday, blaming climate change for the “fantastical” anomalies. Russia’s northern territories, including parts of Yakutia region which…
“#Turning wastewater into a resource” Credit: Ivan Bandura at Unsplash A team of European researchers and engineers initiated the ULTIMATE project to turn wastewater into a resource. This initiative is co-financed by the European Commission and started in June 2020. The aim is to create economic value and increase sustainability by valorising resources within the…
“#Study finds elevated soil lead levels in formerly industrial residential NYC neighborhoods” Credit: CC0 Public Domain Over the past 20 years, many areas within New York City have transitioned from industrial and manufacturing zones to residential neighborhoods. This brings families with young children to areas with a legacy of historic lead contamination in the soil….
“#Microplastic pollution accumulates heavily in coastal areas such as fjords and estuaries” Shelf and deep sea environments have generally lower micropastic flux rates than coastal environments, but high rates may occur locally where bottom currents concentrate microplastic (e.g. on drift deposits, in submarine canyons and ocean trenches; Kane et al., 2020) or beneath locations of…
“#NASA catches a short-lived Eastern Pacific Depression 4E” NASA-NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite provided forecasters with a visible image of Tropical Depression 4E on June 29, 2020. The depression was located southwest of the southernmost tip of Baja California, Mexico. Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) Tropical Depression 4E formed late…